On 07/08/2010 12:08 AM, Daniel Hedlund wrote: > The website looks good, even in elinks! I've got one design question > relating to the FAQ page though. When I visit the page the first > thing I notice is a large block of grey and not that it's a page full > of questions and answers. What made you decide to go with expanding > and contracting boxes as opposed to having all the questions on the > page with an outline at the top, similar to the old site? With the > current design, the questions are a bit difficult to read and there's > no way to simply scroll down the page to read through everything > (except in elinks, which again looks great). > > Cheers, > > Daniel Hedlund > [email protected] > > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 15:34,<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Wiki's up and general layout set up, preview at >> http://nathanewilliams.com/projects/pdxlinux/wiki >> i've already crash-tested by moving it cross domain and cross-directory >> after the install and set-up, so this should be a vurry resilient wiki :D >> >> yay for the dokuwiki team, i might have to buy a shirt. >> >> cheers, >> >> nathan w. >> >> p.s. i got the msg and will update the font contrast tonite, though it >> totally ruins the whole art nouveau 'website-running-out-of-toner' look... >> ;) >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
hi Dan, Thanks for your comments. i chose accordion menus because i think it's a bit of a modern and sexy effect, and it lets all the questions show up right at the top. i did code it the way you describe (questions at the top with bookmarks to the corresponding answer section), but this only shows up if you're in a basic browser (elinks) or if you have javascript disabled in the browser (try disabling js in firefox, and you'll see what i mean). <noscript> ftw! re: legibility, these comments are extremely useful, please keep 'em coming. i already heightened font contrast site-wide based on Rich's comment, i think this may have led to the decrease in contrast for the text on the faq menu as that text is on a different colored background. i'll clean that up and increase contrast and font legibility for that page specifically tonite. regarding the accordion menu, if we'd rather have the old style, it's an easy change to make. i'd also thought of maybe putting the FAQ section into the wiki instead, but hadn't gotten around to it as i already had the FAQ page finished. discussion around that idea is welcome, and seems to make sense at first consideration. thanks much for your feedback, together we'll make this site truly awesome. regards, nathan w p.s. as a general update, i've set up the home-page to display an rss page of recent activity in the wiki, and will be tweaking it some tonite to show dates and what-not. this should improve visibility for the wiki, and help indicate that the group is very much alive and active, addressing the concern that static pages can be a bit ambiguous as to how active a group like PLUG is. once i've got that tweaked the way i like it, i'll port it to all 'static' pages. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
